INDEX OF SONG TITLES
(entered to date)
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- Palm Sunday: Naples
- Composer:
- John Musto
- Text:
- Arthur Symons
- Pan With Us (in A Seasonal Songbook)
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Papa Above! (from op. 108)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Papa above! (in Childe Emilie)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Paradise for Sale (in A Musical Nashery)
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- Ogden Nash
- Paradise - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Park
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- John Hollander
- Parted
- Composer:
- William Grant Still
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Parting
- Composer:
- Ernest Gold
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Parts of Summer Weather (in Entrances and Departures)
- Composer:
- Stefania de Kenessey
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Pastime - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Richard Danielpour
- Text:
- Michael S. Harper
- The Pasture
- Composer:
- Margaret Bonds
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- The Pasture
- Composer:
- Charles Naginski
- Text:
- Robert Frost
- Paterfamilias (in Saints Without Tears)
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Text:
- Phyllis McGinley
- Patterns in Blue - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Peace (in The Face of War)
- Composer:
- Elie Siegmeister
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Peacock Pie - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Walter De la Mare
- A Penny For Your Thoughts
- Composer:
- Stephen Foster
- Text:
- Stephen Foster
- The Pennycandystore Beyond The El (in Songfest)
- Composer:
- Leonard Bernstein
- Text:
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Pentecost (in Becoming a Redwood)
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- Peonies at Dusk (in Briefly It Enters)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Jane Kenyon
- A Perfect Day
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Perhaps you'd like to buy a flower (in Thirteen Dickinson Songs)
- Composer:
- George Perle
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Perineo
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Personal (in Climbing: Poems by African-Americans)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Phoenix
- Composer:
- Frank Lewin
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- Pierrot (in Night Songs: Four Poems of A. Crapsey)
- Composer:
- Lee Hoiby
- Text:
- Adelaide Crapsey
- A Pig in the House
- Composer:
- Libby Larsen
- Pines Songs - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Daniel Asia
- Text:
- Paul Pines
- Pippa's Song (The Year's at the Spring)
- Composer:
- Etta Parker
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- Pippa's Song (The Year's at the Spring)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Robert Browning
- Pirate Song
- Composer:
- Henry F. Gilbert
- Text:
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pity Me Not Because the Light of Day (in I Will Breathe a Mountain)
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Places To Live
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- The Planet on the Table (in Last Poems of Wallace Stevens)
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- Text:
- Wallace Stevens
- Planting a Sequoia
- Composer:
- Alva Henderson
- Text:
- Dana Gioia
- The Pleasure of Giving (in Half-Minute Songs)
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Plums (Two Songs) - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Lori Laitman
- Text:
- William Carlos Williams
- The Pobble Who Has No Toes (in A Little Nonsense)
- Composer:
- Richard Pearson Thomas
- Text:
- Edward Lear
- The Pocketbook (in How to Get Heat Without Fire)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Marilyn Kallet
- Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed)
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Frank O'Hara
- Poems of Love and Rain - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Ned Rorem
- A Poet Gazes on the Moon, Op. 8, no. 3
- Composer:
- Margaret Ruthven Lang
- Poet Pal of Mine
- Composer:
- William Bolcom
- Text:
- Arnold Weinstein
- The Poet's Calendar - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Poet's Song
- Composer:
- Aaron Copland
- Text:
- E. E. Cummings
- The Poets light but Lamps — (in The White Diadem)
- Composer:
- Leo Smit
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- The Poets - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- The Point (in Climbing: Poems by African-Americans)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Robert Hayden
- The Point (in America 1968)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Robert Hayden
- Porch Swing in September (in A Heartland Portrait)
- Composer:
- Stephen Paulus
- Text:
- Ted Kooser
- Port Town
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Portrait of F.B.
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- Gertrude Stein
- Portraits - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Richard Danielpour
- Text:
- Maya Angelou
- Poème d’Automne
- Composer:
- Margaret Bonds
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Praises and Prayers - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- The Praises of God
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- W. H. Auden
- Prayer of Columbus
- Composer:
- Robert Strassburg
- Text:
- Walt Whitman
- Prayer of St. Theresa (in Songs of Consolation)
- Composer:
- David Conte
- Text:
- Traditional
- Prayer of a Tired Child (op. 75, no. 4)
- Composer:
- Amy Marcy Beach
- Text:
- Abbie Farwell Brown
- A Prayer to St. Catherine (in Mostly About Love)
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- Kenneth Koch
- Prayer (in Genius Child: A Cycle of 10 Songs)
- Composer:
- Ricky Ian Gordon
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- Prayer (in Nightsongs)
- Composer:
- H. Leslie Adams
- Text:
- Langston Hughes
- A Prayer (in Jump Back!)
- Composer:
- Simon Sargon
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Prayers of Steel (in Three Songs)
- Composer:
- Ruth Crawford Seeger
- Text:
- Carl Sandburg
- Preciosilla
- Composer:
- Virgil Thomson
- Text:
- Gertrude Stein
- Premonitions
- Composer:
- Charles Ives
- Text:
- Robert Underwood Johnson
- A Present from Yourself (in Half-Minute Songs)
- Composer:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Text:
- Carrie Jacobs-Bond
- Presentiment (op. 105, no. 12)
- Composer:
- Arthur Farwell
- Text:
- Emily Dickinson
- Pride (in Seven Deadly Sins)
- Composer:
- Robert Beaser
- Text:
- Anthony Hecht
- Primary Colors (in The Deepest Desire)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Prologue
- Composer:
- Miriam Gideon
- Text:
- Anne Bradstreet
- Prologue: Once More - To Gloriana (in Songs to the Moon)
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Vachel Lindsay
- Prologue: Ships That Pass in the Night
- Composer:
- Jake Heggie
- Text:
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Promiscuity
- Composer:
- Samuel Barber
- Text:
- Anonymous
- Propriety - Song Collection
- Composer:
- Juliana Hall
- Text:
- Marianne Moore
- The Puritan's Ballad
- Composer:
- John Duke
- Text:
- Elinor Wylie
- Putting Down the Cat (in Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun...)
- Composer:
- Tom Cipullo
- Text:
- Billy Collins
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